The Morning Heresy 4/26/12: Wake Me Up in 2038

April 26, 2012

In case you were wondering, nonreligious Americans are still second class citizens. It's time to put aside that Reason Rally euphoria and face the harsh, sad truth: men and women who live without religion are still systematically discriminated against at the highest level.

Following his appearance on Anderson Cooper's show on folks who think they've seen UFOs, LA Times says, "Nickell did a fine job offering a coherent, yet sympathetic, response to as many of the claims as time allowed."

In the latest Skeptical Inquirer, Americans United's Rob Boston has a review of a new compendium of Bigfoot films (print version only right now), and you can check out Rob's experiences at a 2003 Bigfoot conference

Maybe you did see visitors from another part of the galaxy. I need more than your eyewitness testimony, though. And in modern times, I need more than a photograph. Today Photoshop software probably has a UFO button.

Scholars & Rogues does a long dismantling of the former NASA employees' letter dissing climate science

Indiana Catholic school teacher suing school for firing her over in vitro fertilization

Mitt Romney's religion holds tenets that hardly disqualify him. But that doesn't mean religion is irrelevant. Would Medved consider it irrelevant if the person running for office were Satanic, or if a candidate prayed to a tomato can?

Imagine being the child of a mixed-race marriage -- especially in the turbulent 60's and free-wheeling 70's. And when you throw in that dad was a Muslim and mom an atheist -- you know it could not have been easy -- and they were Communists for crying out loud! At age 6, young Barry was shipped off to Indonesia and exposed to Islam for several years. His parents divorced, he returned to the U.S., and Barack was placed with his grandparents. By the time he got to college, he was experimenting with cocaine, marijuana, and even thought about using heroin. Hardly sounds like one who would become President of the United States, the most powerful man in the greatest, most powerful country in the history of the world, does it? It seems against all odds… … almost miraculous? After Barack Hussein Obama suddenly cast off his Muslim roots, rejected his mother's disbelief in God, turned tail on the Islam of his early life and converted to Christianity -- BLAM -- he's elected President. Anyone who believes the two things are not connected is being disingenuous at best. I don't know how or when it happened, whether when he was partying at college or five minutes before he first decided to run for office, but it doesn't matter -- he came to Christ, and he is my brother.

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Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids. His blog at the Patheos network is iMortal, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.